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1. Managing conflicts over Alberta’s land: Listen to the locals

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, November 9, 2015 In the late 19th century, William Pearce, an Alberta-based civil servant and long-time surveyor in the Dominion government’s Department of the Interior, became increasingly concerned about the tendency of ...

2. Ranching Realities in the 21st Century

   Land management in Alberta and much of Western Canada could be enhanced if policies ensure that property rights are well-defined and transferable. Disputes over the proper use of land have multiplied across Western Canada as population growth, increased ...

3. Albertans closest to the land are often best suited to manage it properly

     The issue of property rights has slipped off the public radar in Alberta, as the province grapples with red ink. But once budget matters fade from the news, population growth, oil and gas exploration, agricultural demands, recreational ...

4. Property rights on the Prairie

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Amid the current focus on provincial red ink, one issue has slipped off the public radar screen in Alberta: Property rights. The lack of attention is understandable given the nearness of the provincial budget and the ...

5. Will China squelch Hong Kong?

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald With the recent Russian-inspired tragedies in eastern Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, much of the world is understandably focused on those regions. But another continent, Asia, is worth watching, ...

6. Lacking constitutional protection, governments routinely trample property rights

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Okanagan Saturday Back when Canada's premiers and then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau debated what to put into what later became the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, property rights were one possibility and ...

7. The Canada and Hong Kong advantage: the rule of law

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Victoria Times Colonist "Travel", said Francis Bacon, "is part of education for the young and a part of experience for those who are older." But there is an additional benefit from a journey outside ...

8. BC's rogue archaeological bureaucracy a threat to private property rights

   Appeared in the Victoria Times Colonist and Calgary Herald Canada is a prosperous county and one critical reason for that is our mostly secure approach to property rights. For example, when governments expropriate private property for some public purpose, ...

9. Free markets are not the property of the Anglosphere

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald In the debate over whether the partially state-owned energy company, China’s CNOOC, should be given the go-ahead by Ottawa to take over Calgary-based Nexen, there is the danger that the discussion will be cast in an ...

10. Open season on private property in British Columbia?

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun and Calgary Herald The federal and B.C. governments have always claimed that native land claims would never affect private property, that First Nations governments would never have veto power over private land. Right. Tell ...